Synonyms of writers

writers

noun

plural of writer

as in authors

a person who creates a written work

a writer who is still trying to get published

Synonyms & Similar Words

• authors
• novelists
• biographers
• poets
• storytellers
• litterateurs
• men of letters
• pens
• women of letters
• screenwriters
• penmen
• scriveners
• bloggers
• playwrights
• wordsmiths
• scribes
• dramatists
• stylists
• columnists
• reporters
• journalists
• scribblers
• ghostwriters
• cowriters
• essayists
• autobiographers
• memoirists
• coauthors
• fictionists
• fictioneers
• scriptwriters
• hagiographers
• auteurs
• belletrists
• memorialists
• fabulists
• pamphleteers
• scenarists
• hacks
• sportswriters
• newspapermen
• romancers
• satirists
• bards
• versifiers
• rhymers
• hatchet men
• wordmongers
• coscenarists
• paragraphers
• prosaists
• prosers
• prosateurs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of writers

Information for this article was contributed by staff writers of The Associated Press and Constant Méheut of The New York Times. — Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026

Lanterns works so well in part because it was conceived as a standalone complete story, albeit one with ramifications for future DCU projects, thereby freeing up the writers to create something truly unique, with no forced, awkward tie-ins. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Well known for his wicked sense of humor, O’Donnell traveled to Russia, China and elsewhere to train local writers and directors in the art of the American sitcom. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2026

Etiquette writers told women in the 1920s to instruct female guests to de-layer in dressing rooms, typically on the second level. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

The good news for recipe writers is that Apple’s approach guarantees at least one visit to their original web page. — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026

Several media chains and hedge funds than own newspapers now judge writers as much by their ability to sell the product (through subscriptions and page views) as the quality of their work. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Christiane Zehl Romero, her chief biographer, noted that the bullheaded Bertolt Brecht had benefitted from Seghers’s protective maneuvers, as did rebellious younger writers such as Heiner Müller and Christa Wolf. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Sugihara cited cuts to arts funding, shifting corporate priorities, industry contractions, mass layoffs and shrinking writers’ rooms. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026